Unity of the Church in the image of the Holy Trinity (continued)

This article is the continuation of a theological study by Archimandrite Sophrony devoted to the unity of the Church considered from the Trinitarian model. The author develops a dogmatic reflection on the nature of divine knowledge and on the antinomic structure of the fundamental dogmas of Christianity. The central idea is that knowledge of God does not belong to rational deduction but to a direct existential experience, made possible by Revelation. The article successively examines the relations between Hypostasis, Essence and Energy in the Trinity, the antinomy of identity and distinction between the three Persons, and the deification of human nature in Christ according to Chalcedon. The theological contribution lies in the articulation between the apophatic theology of the Fathers, the Palamite doctrine of divine energies and a Christological anthropology founded on the notion of image and likeness.